Best Dunk Contest

[air gordon]

please...you know if someone else would say that the one from 1988 was overrated, if you compare it with the 2000 one, then you wouldnt even reply.....

you may say that its not true...but I know it

anyways...I dont want to continue this discussion...I answered your questions why I think the 1988 wasnt that great so lets leave it by this

there you go assuming things again. man i wish i had your gifts of insight. since you know me so well, you already know what i'm going to say. i'll say no more

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finaly

[Andreas Dahl]

i can't say that i've experiesed many dunk contest's... scinse i live in sweden i don't get ANY basketball on tv...

the only dunk contest's i've fully seen is 2000, 2001, 2003 (i thank dc++ for those) and of those i say i liked 2000 best, then 2003... although 2001 wasn't bad, it was altight. but now quite as good...

about the -88... from what i've seen in short clips and 'highlights... i'd say nique was robbed there...
i mean c'mon; a 45 for his last dunk? that was home-court advantage at it's fullest

[bishibashiboy]

I liked 88 and 2000 as well. I can't decide which one is better though.
I will say that the last two year's events seemed more contrived than previous years..and the added effects and stuff (lights off, drum roll, flashing lights, etc) were just too fake and took away from the event and the moment.
If a dunk is good, you don't need that extra crap. People will applaud on their own.

2003 was boring in my opinion. Even J-Rich's last dunk (though technically very hard to pull off i'll agree with that) didn't really look that great and wasn't in my opinion:
powerful enough, or clean enough thru the rim.

In my opinion, the reason why 88 and 2000 were so good was because the contest was full of established stars. That makes a big difference, to me anywyas. For some reason the dunks just "look" better from them.

[magius]

88. most of these new age dunkers are too flashy and too cocky. and the 80 dunkers are more creative than the ones now because they contrived something out of nothing, they were the CREATors. all the dunks now are basically spinoffs and variations of dunks already done, and that is why the dunk contest is so boring and whenever someone tries to do something original they are doing it just for the sake of being original and its is extremely cheesy. i agree with dilz on this. watching it live makes a difference, yes, and the quality of video also makes a difference, its like comparing dvd and home taped vhs.